No one in my family will ever get a flu shot. Can parents opt out of such “requirements”?
Opting out
Children who do not attend preschool or day care will not be forced to receive the flu and bacterial pneumonia vaccinations. Nor will those who are enrolled in parochial school or who are home-schooled.
Parents may seek two types of exemptions.
• For a medical waiver, a licensed physician must certify that immunization would harm the child.
• For a religious waiver, a parent must certify that the vaccination would “conflict with the pupil’s exercise of bona fide religious tenets or practices.” The law does not allow a child to forgo immunization based solely on philosophical or moral grounds.
Source: N.J. Department of Health and Senior Services